Starting the Fall Garden & Why Matt Never Liked School

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[@benitastevens612]

Hurry and eat your popsicle before you get wet. I have eaten more popsicles than I have ever eaten since I have been watching your videos. Very good for cooling off.

[@islandgyaljay-cay6171]

Someone asked my husband what food he didn’t like and his answer was “rocks”, that man of mine will eat everything 😂

[@FarmRanchLiving]

He’s a man after my husband’s appetite. God bless them❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@rosiewallace4449]

Too funny!

[@heidiandbretz9867]

I read this comment juat as Tipper and Matt were talking about what Matt didnt like lol

[@karensweet6530]

😂😂😂😂 That's how my husband was. I couldn't help but cackle!

[@rosiewallace4449]

My brother was like Matt when it came to school. Although he never went to college, he ended up a VP at a fortune 100 company. He was always smart and hard working. Sometimes formal schooling isn’t always all that it is cracked up to be. Always fun to listen to you all.😊

[@maryjemison1101]

Amen 🙏

[@Ronald-hx6zn]

Common sense will take a person a long way.

[@sandracrowe4020]

I know Matt was a Haywood county boy. Was he a Tuscola Mountaineer or a Black Bear from Pisgah?

[@truthmatters7805]

My dad went to the 3rd grade. Self taught. Enlisted into the Army from the hills of eastern Kentucky.🪖Ended up in the Big Red One 1st Infantry Division 26th Regime on the front lines as a gunner in WWll, was then chosen as a US Army Honor Guard at age 19. He guarded all 21 condemned Nazis under Hitler for Crimes against Humanity at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials at The Palace of Justice as well as guarded them in the prison. He was 19. Came home had 9 children, died at almost 92 after being misdiagnosed by a doctor. He never went to doctors. I know where he's at though and the way this ole' worlds a lookin will be seeing him soon. Praise you Jesus!! John 14:6

[@terifarmer5066]

@@Ronald-hx6zn Exactly !!!

[@TRMTRM-qw7ov]

I have a photo of my father in the first grade, lined up with his classmates. It was taken at the small school in the little coal mining town in Tennessee, where he lived. My mother had enlargements made of just my dad for the five of us. I was delighted to see that in the pocket of his overalls he had a slingshot. I still have and cherish that photo.

[@melrose795]

Love that, so sweet..

[@BeccaBean2020]

I felt the same way about fall and school time. I'm 64 and I still get that anxious feeling when the crepe myrtles start blooming and the cicadas start singing. 😂

[@angelrogers6206]

It is just remarkable the way you and Matt seem to be just as happy to sit and talk! Thank you both!!!

[@sierra5877]

Have you watched any of Peter Santenello’s KZbin series on Appalachia?? He’s been going down the Appalachian mountains and interviewing all different kinds of folks from different communities and shedding light on a lot of the problems, as well as celebrating all of the good things Appalachia has going on. Would be so cool if you did a collaboration with him!! Not sure where he is at now but he just released a video about Cherokee NC. Very cool series.

[@melrose795]

Glad you brought this uo, I watch him too and have seen some of his Appalachian videos, and actually, today I was watching his one in Cherokee..So, so good...Yes, I agree it would be a great collaboration with Pete!

[@1jrcarreto]

I actually emailed Peter a few weeks ago about Tipper's channel. He had already concluded filming.

[@sierra5877]

@@1jrcarreto oh what a bummer!!

[@hereigns7221]

What is the KZbin channel name? Sounds so interesting!

[@1jrcarreto]

It was a bummer but great that he did personally reply to my e-mail. He actually sent a standard reply and then followed up with a personal reply.

[@sharongoodson2857]

You know Ms.Tipper your Pap would be so happy and proud of you guys to know you are back in the garden he work in so many times raising food for his family. So heart warming to know you have so many good memories in that old garden. I certainly remember the times when I was little seeing my dear sweet grandmother and Mom in the garden working. Love watching you guys. May GOD bless you all with a wonderful crop of wonderful food for your family.

[@kelliealley7418]

I agree Mat...I love all the seasons but fall and winter are my favorite.

[@norencenelson8111]

Matt and I would have been soul mates in school. When I was 14 I got a .22 single shot for Christmas. I still recall setting in class and waiting for 3:00. Then, I was out the door and ran home and got the rifle and went to the woods. It was near dark before I got home. My grandma would fix the squirrels and rabbits I shot. It was just her and I and we ate like royalty. If you get deer in the garden, drive some stakes into the ground and string monofilament fishing line about two feet from the ground. Deer get spooked because they can feel that line touching them but they can't see it. Old photos are fun to look at. Love these posts.

[@benitastevens612]

That is what people say about my girls and they are 62, 52 and 50…beautiful girls and hard workers…we love them!

[@juliayoung537]

Love y'all! Matt telling you to talk fast was so funny 😊 no true southerner never talks fast ❤. Prayers for you and your family 🙏

[@bettygriffin9181]

My Texas ears have trouble hearing fast talk.

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

@@bettygriffin9181😂

[@HELENGodLoves]

5:56 That was the greatest image!!! Matt was becoming unfed!! He couldn't wait no longer for the 🍅samich😂

[@brendaschenck859]

Always enjoy your chats & popsicle breaks ❤ prayers for Granny & all y’all ❤

[@leaciochetti315]

"Enjoy your freedom, cause it's coming to a close" says the Deer Hunter 😂😆😂😆 Matt is too funny 👍

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@lindawilson6782]

I feel like I was sitting right there with you. I can relate to not liking school, so thankyou Matt for sharing

[@SandraBugler-vq6co]

I never liked school either. I was an honor roll student but hated going. Didn't like it when my kids went either. Too many rules and fussing about what's going on in your home. We had nothing to hide but it seemed like they were always looking over your shoulder.

[@kathleenm3282]

I have read other farmers cutting up original Irish Spring soap bars and put around plants to keep deer away. They say it was successful. Always enjoy spending time with all of you. Love and prayers to all of you.

[@kelleywright486]

Irish Spring is also good to keep away gnats and fruit flies when you have tomatoes and other bounty from the garden sitting in the kitchen.

[@darleneridgeway7452]

The deer laughed at my soap & ate the hydrangeas I had tied them to. I used hair, pie pans, fishing line on posts.. nothing stopped them! I’m buying a tall fence!

[@angiethompson5684]

I love looking at old photos, in black and white, makes you wonder what all their surroundings looked like in color. Even my old family photos makes you really want to leap back in time ❤

[@SmokyMtFaithFoodFun]

I was definitely like Matt. Just had that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was never more glad than when I was out and when my kids were done with it. If I had it all to do over again, Homeschool would be the way to go.

[@janicegrogg9710]

Always enjoy spending time with you, prayers for Granny🙏🏻🙏🏻💕

[@denisechristy-everett8606]

Matt, your popsicle will fill in the cracks. Regarding school, I lived in Oklahoma for first and second, and those classes were in the same room. In the whole school there was only 4 classes. First to eighth, 2 classes in a room. Small country school. I loved it.

[@triciaingram7610]

I grew up in Leonard Oklahoma and i went to a classroom with two grades in a room.

[@kdautry100]

Y’all are cracking’ us up today!! 😂 🦌 🍽️ 🍅 🪴

[@informaticsnursebev1538]

I love shelly beans. Speaks of Summer to me. 😊 We ‘cooked our beans to death’ but wow what good eatin! Speaking already of Fall, witnessing delayed sunrises up this way a bit in NOVA. I’m ready for it! 😋

[@donnaherron3643]

I’m a retired hairstylist and I think you would look so cute without your perm. Not that you don’t look cute now, but for something different, I would love to see just a cute haircut. Love your channel

[@elizabethfranke194]

"Matt come un-fed" I laughed out loud, that's a cute one !

[@dottiehildebrand3123]

Love the stories you tell. Love seeing Matt get excited by seeing a deer. You can tell he has a passion for hunting.. Glad you got your fall garden planted.. God bless..Thank you for keeping the Appalachian Life alive.. To hear you talk reminds me of family .🇺🇸🌹❤️

[@PamsMountainGarden]

I am with Matt. Hated every last minute of school. Wanted to be in the woods with my dog.

[@mallory0322]

Before we know it it'll be time for cocoa sipping by the cozy woods stove!! I can't wait!!☺️ Lovely and blessed week to you both and your beautiful family!🌼🌺🌼

[@garykirk9888]

May God bless your Fall planting!!!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you!

[@juliagarza9942]

Tipper I just love to see you and Matt working together in the Garden. It is just a joy to watch because it takes me back to the time when I worked with my Mom & Dad's garden as I grew up. When I married and had my own family I enjoyed gardening, canning, shelling butter beans, peas and shucking corn with the cool breeze under our huge Magnolia Tree as my children played around me. Oh, what joy those memories brings me now. Thank you for sharing your life in Appalachia❤

[@rhondabutler4172]

I’m with Matt on cooler weather and not liking school but I never got in trouble at school. I’m definitely a rule follower….still. 😊

[@Lisa-ne5pd]

I love y'alls talks. They are so sweet. 🙏❣

[@susandavis1205]

Love watching your videos always learning something

[@oldnorthstateoutdoors2002]

It's dry as cotton here in Burke County. No meaningful rain in weeks. I am with Matt I hated school.

[@lorettataylor9902]

I’m with Matt on going back to school. I can relate to the pit in the stomach. I’m thankful my son and daughter loved school.

[@HHoughton]

I totally agree with Matt concerning school, for me it was like breathing hot sand. I loved learning to read and after that it was all down hill. My mother made the mistake of telling me," Anything you ever want to know is in a book somewhere" and since then I have eschewed school and spent my life learning from books. I love listening to y'all talk.

[@melissapollom427]

Matt reminds me of my Dad, just a quiet guy with a comical streak. The cardinal means someone you lost is visiting you. I thought of Miss Cindy. I love listening to you and Matt talking about your childhood and your garden.

[@roserollins9800]

He reminds of my daddy and I'm 72yrs old

[@saracampbell7475]

Tommy toe recipe...gather as many little tomatoes as you can and spread them on a baking sheet..I first place parchment papeer on baking sheet....drizzle olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Place in 300 degree oven for 2-3 hrs. Blend results and use as tomato sauce in recipes. Delicious!!!

[@darlacarter441]

We grew up calling them a gully washer when we get a big rain.

[@Five-O-Preacher]

Me and mine are all from South Arkansas and we share so many of these sayings. I think “tickled pink” and “be there with bells on” are my 2 most used sayings

[@claudiademoss6040]

I have a picture of my 1st grade class (back in 1957). I was in the front row, sitting in a seat, cross-ways with my arm on the back of the seat. I guess I got tired of them trying to get us all to pose properly. It must've been a one shot and we're done! That picture is indicative of my personality, even today!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@dwaynemartztvnetwork]

I love looking at old photos also. Like Matt I always like looking at what is in the background. It is so cool! You find some very interesting things that are in the photos with the people.

[@alclubb]

I really love your videos and seeing your garden and how you cook. The only negative I have to share is that I cannot watch any of the longer videos. I wish they were all about 30 minutes long instead of almost an hour, but maybe that works better for others. Keep posting such lovely visits with your family. I just have to watch smaller bits of them.

[@carolyncooper2535]

Send some of the rain to south Louisiana!!! We haven’t had rain in over a month. The thermometer said 101 today, so hot here! Please Lord send us some rain!!!

[@dianeboettcher5775]

Here in Texas, we would welcome some rain. It’s been so hot and dry. My garden is definitely DONE.

[@btrixie60]

I've got to where when I watch these videos I almost get sick wantin to move out of Texas and go where I can have a garden. Somewhere where it actually rains and you don't turn to vapor when you walk outside.

[@sandraedwards8228]

On page 147, Chapter 16 Domestic Fruits it has a picture of baskets on the fruit stand. The ones that have a red stripe around them are bushel baskets right? I've heard a song that goes a bushel and a peck! What is a peck? Is it a fourth of a bushel or a half of a bushel ? Lol! ❤️🙏 Love your book, gardening tips, cooking, canning, music and all your videos! ❤️❤️❤️🎉🎶🙏Sooo relaxing, bless your Mom and new grandbaby and all your family! ❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@KarenInTx]

You are right about black walnuts. You either love them or not. I love them. Get you some black walnut ice cream. That is where I first fell in love with black walnut flavor. Like Matt I am ready for fall my favorite season. Yall have a great week. Thinking of Granny and hoping for some better news. God bless yall.

[@DeborahHilson]

You are so right! Best black walnut ice cream from produce stand at Wadesboro, NC.

[@ericac4842]

Ohhhh, I would love to see a video of y'all making that coconut cake!!!!❤❤❤

[@Louisbia]

I agree with Matt, I hated high school...ughhhh...I made A's and B's occasional C but High School graduation day was one of the HAPPIEST days of my life! I am around Matt's age and to this day I will still have dreams/nightmares of them trying to say I have to go back and finish another class in order to graduate!! ugh!!

[@amyhamilton2201]

I remember buying fall veg on Long Island when I was in my 20s. The farmers market was huge and I loved it. Brussel Sprouts, root veg. Yumm

[@amyhamilton2201]

Tipper, I loved hearing Granny sing with Paul. Thank you!

[@heidiandbretz9867]

I'm in no ways ready for summer to draw down! I have such a rough time with the colder shorter days. I could do summer and spring forever. The sounds of the crickets, the smell of grass and flowers....heavenly!❤

[@jamesbean7560]

They are such a great couple....always with great conversations....secret to a happy marriage I think.

[@EdinburgMSify]

Heavy rains - gully washers, slight monsoon, bottom has fell out. Just some of the things I hear, here in Central Mississippi.

[@sandratorchia4803]

Matt has got that hunter’s look in his eyes.

[@sharonpults1177]

Could you cook your little tomatoes down, run them through a food mill, get the juice and pulp and freeze it? I'll bet it would make wonderful spaghetti sauce or pizza sauce....yum

[@donnahawkinsharper8344]

Tipper, I love black walnuts too. When I was little, like about 8, my Aunt who lived in Pennsylvania sent my momma some black walnuts. I remember how we struggled to get the meat out of the shell. We had oak floors and my momma & I put several dents in the floor where we missed the nuts and hit the floor. 😂 But, even though we didn’t get a lot of meat out of the shell, I remember how excited my momma was to eat them. I liked the way they tasted too. It wasn’t until I was older & we started come to the mountains regular that I had black walnuts again. Now I gather them whenever I see them on the ground. I love black walnut ice cream and black walnut spice cake. Hope your fall garden does well. 😊❤😊Another great video. Oh, I know Wayne Gordon. We use to go to church in Dillard with he & his precious wife Susan. See ya again soon. 😊❤😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Prayers for Granny. 😊

[@melrose795]

I agree about school, especially as I got in the higher grades, I would dread going, got that sinking feeling too...Graduated by the skin of my teeth...Miraculous that I went and made it through college too...Have a great week and continued prayers for Granny and you all..

[@Falcon-yv2hm]

Haven’t seen but one daughter lately, hopefully everything is ok🙏🏻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

The girls are fine 😀 Thank you for asking!

[@karenbrewer5864]

The last class picture I had was in 7th grade, just single pictures after that. I love to go back and look at those pictures. We use to spend Sunday afternoons at my mom and dad’s looking at old pictures. Really miss that. I love black walnuts too, especially in chocolate fudge at Christmas. 😊

[@BeccaBean2020]

Tipper sometimes you look like Bernadette Peters. It's just sometimes when you're looking down at something concentrating you have a very striking similarity. It's taking me awhile to figure it out but I finally did. She's a beautiful redhead with curly hair not unlike yours. You are just as beautiful! ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

thank you 😀

[@ckal6958]

🍅🫛Really enjoyed your video…been watching your garden this summer…it’s wonderful! Looks like you still got a good mess of beans to enjoy! We pastor in East TN and our church members grew a community garden behind our country church and everyone loved our beans too! Tomato sandwiches are delicious! Loved the old school pictures! Just precious! I have many treasured black & white pictures of my Grandparents life…pure treasures! We love your channel…thank you for keep the “old ways” alive! God bless you all!

[@jeninethompson9540]

Tipper thanks for the explanation of greasy beans I had some beans I had to shell now I know the name shelly beans .I got three tomatoes today they were orange and I had some small purple also.Loved"we had to feed Matt because he became unfed"🙂

[@TinaMcCauley1980]

I love looking at older pictures. So interesting.

[@TheDurnans]

Here in zone 4b, our fall garden has to be done by mid-october. We can get frost as early as September, but by October, temps drop into the teens and 20's at night. Do you ever grow parsnips? My uncle loves them, but I have not been able to grow them successfully yet. I remember when my family lived on a property with black walnut trees. We'd pick them up and put them in the cement mixer with a shovel of gravel and water. Dad would run the mixer for an hour or so, then he had a wheelbarrow with a hole in it (from rust) and he would dump the walnut/gravel into. The water was black, our hands would be black picking the walnuts out of the wheelbarrow, and once done, Dad would take and dump the gravel and walnut husks out at the end of the driveway. The walnuts were nice and smooth and in the winter, we'd crack walnuts for Christmas goodies. Do you enjoy hickory nuts? I love hickory and pecans the best. Sadly, pecans don't grow here.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

We've never grown parsnips. I think we tried one time but they didn't make for us. I do like hickory nuts 😀

[@diannegrimes1471]

I still love this time of year. I stil get the excitement that its time for school to start like i was a kid. I'm 62. I guess cause I live fall so much it's just the start of fall to me even though the temperature doesn't show it. 🍂🍁 Praying for Granny 🙏

[@benitastevens612]

I like V 8 juice and have made it when I had a lot of tomato’s, carrots, onions, peppers and I would buy celery…I would blend them all up in my food blinder. I would not strain them I would cook them and season to taste…let it cool off and put in quart jars to put in fridge to use in chili, soup or just to drink. I would have about 4 to 5 quarts.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Sounds great!

[@thomasmccardle725]

I love what you said about Matt becoming unfed 😂 I’m glad he didn’t starve himself to death! Tipper I really enjoy spending time with Matt and yourself in your beautiful garden!!!

[@taylorfamily8176]

I love them to cornbread and those beans and tomatoes is all I need

[@gscrafty4801]

Shelly beans are my favorite. My Nana would always can small jars of Shelly beans for me as a child so I’m always had them. I would get home from school and most days when my Nana would ask me what I wanted to hold me over till supper I would have a jar of Shelly beans and a left over biscuit grilled with butter. Yum!

[@comiketiger]

God bless you guys and all here. 😊😊😊😊😊

[@pmay7822]

"Who dressed that Moron!?"🤣 you slay me Matt. Love listening to your conversations. Love the Okrey shirt Tipper!

[@terryboyer1342]

How time flies. Seems like you just started getting the garden in. 😲

[@lindareinking5326]

We called them gully washers when the rains were heavy. I was excited the first couple days of school ... until I had to do homework. Matt was like my brother. He wiuld cut school. We were in high school together and had one class together. The teacher wiuld ask me where he was and I would make some excuse. He graduated . He was and is a hard worker as a contractor. 😅

[@susanbeal3253]

My husband’s great grandmother made homemade coconut layer cakes at Christmas to give for gifts, she would make them and store them on the unheated back porch until she gave them away, I can remember them all laid out in the cold, fresh coconut on top, I will forever associate coconut cake with Christmas 😊

[@nancyl3843]

I also hated school. My senior year, a bunch of us used to skip at least once a week, and we went to Seven Caves (Ohio) and several swimming holes. It's a good thing, too, because no one is allowed in the Seven Caves anymore. Government took it over, made it a "sanctuary," and disallowed people from that magnificent place.

[@dd7521]

Yes, enjoy our freedom whilst we can.

[@herbhilmer5267]

Hey! Tipper and Matt. How are you? I’m new to your channel and enjoy watching your videos. Well? Grade School and High School for me weren’t too bad. I got my collage degree while I was in service, which was way more interesting than High School. I really like watching you two work your garden and talk about living in Appalachia. Thank you for keeping that part of American History and Appalachian traditions alive. Bless you and your family, take care.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Welcome! And thank you-so glad you are enjoying our videos. We appreciate you watching 😀

[@scott236]

I can see that frontiersman look in Matts face and eyes. :)

[@benitastevens612]

I like nuts of all kind! Have you ever used black walnut pralines? I have been tempted to make some. Love a fall garden. I cook greens as I an going to eat, then I freeze them. They are good just heat and eat or use in soups or other dishes.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I've never made them but should 😊

[@deborahgarrison4349]

Tommy toes are great for tomato juice, run through the blender then squeeze out the pulp.

[@ramonajohnson5694]

Matt is a hunter, you can see the gleam in his eye, much love to ya'll ❤

[@Deadcntr]

There are many terms for rain used hereabouts. There is road strangler, gully washer and many more.

[@maryeliason1504]

I love sharing these visits. Stat healthy. We love you guys.

[@patsyerrington]

I love old photos too, Tipper. I always wonder about the story behind the photo. There's a song by Jamey Johnson called 'You Should Have Seen It In Color' if you haven't heard it you and Matt might like to look up the lyrics or watch the video here on you tube. ... I remember my Daddy saying 'he hated wearing short pants.' I didn't ask if it was everyday wear, but I doubt that they were because he was raised on a dairy farm and he milked a lot of cows. He kept that early rising habit all his life even after he retired. He lived with us in his later years and woke me at 4am every morning to go for a walk with him. He would start his day when we got back, but I would lay back down for a little bit till my family was ready to get up. Wish I could walk with him now.....Matt is funny. Enjoy you both so much, those sweet girls too. ❤🙏

[@kristychavez2149]

I agree with Matt! I hated school too!

[@cindydevine173]

I can't tell you how much I needed this video today. I was having a terrible day and this really helped me escape for a bit. Thank you both for all of the videos you share with us they really are appreciated and a blessing. 😊

[@txtopaz7997]

I feel the same way💕

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Bless you! I hope tomorrow is better!!

[@cindydevine173]

Thank you.

[@sylviathompson5311]

Your shirt brought to my mind something we tried for the first time this year. My husband was thinning the okra and I was thinking what a shame it was to waste them so I cooked the leaves and tender stems for greens and it was delicious! We like drying the tommytoe halves to eat on salads.

[@Mkp2375]

When that heavy rain came in WNC, we called it a “ gulley washer “. I really enjoy all your videos. Thank you for all ya’ll do for your viewers.

[@sarahsiskin6780]

What a lovely video. Can’t wait to go ‘hunting’ w Matt in a video.

[@cynderella3465]

I would enjoy viewing Matt's deer hunting preparations and hunting.

[@wideawake333]

Get Kim on here, I would love that coconut cake recipe!! ❤

[@conniewisnasky]

Tipper, GURL, every time you yawned, I yawned. LOL LOVE y'all for keeping it real and sharing Appalachia!

[@sharonharrison3611]

Im like you, Tipper. I absolutely love black walnuts. I eat them out of the bag, make my cakes with them. Everything. Grannys cake sounds delicious!❤️

[@mitzievans5037]

Totally agree. Will have to try Granny's cake too. 🙏 for Granny.

[@shirleyvastine9328]

My husband and I live in what was a one room schoolhouse built in 1895. We only have a photo from the first day it opened, everyone standing out front. You can see someone in back tying up their horse. Must have been late for school! Wish we had inside photos.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that 😊

[@suesally2103]

I’am wanting to try my hand in Baby spinach this fall 🍁🍂

[@vickiechapman5205]

I love old pictures

[@cchap-222]

Y'all are so blessed to be able to have that much rain we haven't had rain in a couple of months. Everything is dry and dying and we're under a burn ban because everything could go up in smoke if one little fire started. We're praying for rain. Again I'm like Matt. I love the cold weather and I hated school. I still don't like to pass near the school..lol

[@Susieqski]

Gully washer! But frog strangler I have not heard before!